{"id":18400,"date":"2022-03-24T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18400"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:04:08","slug":"1128367_toyota-gr-corolla-hot-hatch-teased-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18400","title":{"rendered":"Toyota GR Corolla hot hatch teased in new video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota in early 2020 said it planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1128110_toyota-is-bringing-a-hot-hatch-to-the-us\">enter the hot hatch segment in the U.S.<\/a>, without providing any further details.<\/p>\n<p>The automaker has however previously ruled out launching a hot hatch based on its subcompact Yaris here, so the newcomer is unlikely to be a version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1126687_meet-the-268-hp-awd-toyota-yaris-americans-can-t-get\">GR Yaris<\/a> hot hatch sold overseas but rather something based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1119967_2020-toyota-corolla-revealed-hybrid-powertrain-coming\">compact Corolla Hatchback<\/a>\u2014something that&#8217;s finally been confirmed in a promotional video for the GR86 sports car.<\/p>\n<p>We get glimpses of the new hot hatch, likely to be called a GR Corolla, first at the 3:30 mark and then again at the 3:55 mark. Toyota has also shown a camouflaged example in a teaser video from last December, a screen shot of which is included in the gallery. A debut should happen later this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVNnpWk9IkA\" width=\"560\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The most potent powertrain in the Corolla at present is a 2.0-liter inline-4 good for 168 hp, but any GR Corolla will likely feature a serious step up in performance. One possibility is the 1.6-liter turbocharged inline-3 that delivers 268 hp in the GR Yaris. The GR Yaris also features all-wheel drive and a 6-speed manual transmission, and with any luck we&#8217;ll see these elements migrate into the GR Corolla as well.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Toyota engineer Naohiko Saito hinted at the possibility of the GR Yaris&#8217; all-wheel-drive setup making it into more models during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carsguide.com.au\/car-news\/toyota-usa-drops-huge-gr-corolla-hint-why-the-new-200kw-hyundai-i30-n-rival-is-guaranteed\"><em>Carsguide<\/em><\/a> published in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s wasting time to use a four-wheel-drive system and this 1.6-liter engine (for only the Yaris GR),\u201d he said. \u201cPersonally, I\u2019d like to use this powertrain for each of the other (GR) models.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota in early 2020 said it planned to enter the hot hatch segment in the U.S., without providing any further details. The automaker has however previously ruled out launching a hot hatch based on its subcompact Yaris here, so the newcomer is unlikely to be a version of the GR Yaris hot hatch sold overseas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}